G Dupre
Biographic Data
| ID | 2248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Dupre |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Dupre |
| SIGNATURE | DUPRE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9312-4691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar
Standard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data assumed to be generated by these very rules. In this paper I give theoretical and empirical arguments that such a model is radically unlike what a human language learner must do to acquire their native language. Most centrally, I argue that such models presuppose that lingu…
Language, Science, and Structure
Journal Article Book Review Get access Language, Science, and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics. By Ryan M. Nefdt. (Oxford: OUP, 2023. Pp. xiii + 237. Price £54.00.) Gabe Dupre Gabe Dupre University of California, Davis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9312-4691 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, pqae004, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae004 Published: 17 January 20…
Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind
Language has long been a problem‐case for subsymbolic theories of mind. The reason for this is obvious: Language seems essentially symbolic. However, recent work has developed a potential solution to this problem, arguing that linguistic symbols are public objects which augment a fundamentally subsymbolic mind, rather than components of cognitive symbol‐processing. I shall argue that this strategy cannot work, on the grounds that human language a…
Idealisation in semantics
In this paper, I shall provide a novel response to the argument from context-sensitivity against truth-conditional semantics. It is often argued that the contextual influences on truth-conditions outstrip the resources of standard truth-conditional accounts, and so truth-conditional semantics rests on a mistake. The argument assumes that truth-conditional semantics is legitimate if and only if natural language sentences have truth-conditions. I s…
Realism and Observation
Standard proposals of scientific anti-realism assume that the methodology of a scientific research program can be endorsed without accepting its metaphysical commitments. I argue that the distinction between competence, the rules governing one’s language faculty, and performance, or linguistic behavior, precludes this. Linguistic theories aim to describe competence, not performance, and so must be able to distinguish observations reflective of th…
Reference and morphology
The dominant tradition in analytic philosophy of language views reference as paradigmatically enabled by the acquisition of words from other speakers. Via chains of transmission, these words connect the referrer to the referent. Such a picture assumes the notion of a word as a stable mapping between sound and meaning. Utterances are constructed out of such stable mappings. While this picture of language is both intuitive and historically distingu…
Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny
Generative grammarians typically advocate for a rationalist understanding of language acquisition, according to which the structure of a developed language faculty reflects innate guidance rather than environmental influence. This proposal is developed in developmental linguistics by triggering models of language acquisition. Opposing this tradition, various theorists have advocated for empiricist views of language acquisition, according to which…
What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought
Traditional arguments against the identification of the language of thought with natural language assume a picture of natural language which is largely inconsistent with that suggested by contemporary linguistic theory. This has led certain philosophers and linguists to suggest that this identification is not as implausible as it once seemed. In this paper, I discuss the prospects for such an identification in light of these developments in lingu…
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea (Oxford
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Linguistics and the explanatory economy
Un ordre et sa destruction
Création et développement des marchés chez les Beembé, 1870-1911
Dans la région de la Bouenza, le district de Mouyondzi occupe les collines au nord du Niari. Sa population actuelle forte de 50 000 habitants relève des deux ensembles ethniques téké et kongo. Au nord se trouvent les Laali, appelés aussi Téké-Laali, au nombre de 4 000, et les Téké proprement dits, se dénommant eux-mêmes Tié, qui approchent les 8 000. Le centre et le sud du district sont occupés par l'ensemble beembé qui, avec 32 000 habitants, se…
Note sur l'usage des cartes dans l'enquête monographique sur Etyolo
En janvier-mars 1963, une mission de deux mois consacrée à des levées topographiques a permis la réalisation de plusieurs cartes : — une carte au 1 /1.000 des champs cultivés (complétée par un plan au 1 /100 des habitations) de deux familles choisies comme exemple. — une carte au 1 /10.000 de l'ensemble du terrain dont le fond est constitué par quelques notations sur le relief, le réseau hydrographique et le tracé des pistes. L'habitat est représ…
Aspects techniques et sociaux de l'agriculture en pays bassari
La présente étude est le résultat d'une enquête dans un village bassari du Sénégal Oriental proche de la frontière guinéenne. Les Bassari constituent une petite population, non islamisée, dont l'activité principale est l'agriculture. 1° Les techniques agricoles. L'agriculture bassari, compte tenu des conditions climatiques et géographiques qui lui sont offertes, et relativement à l'agriculture des populations voisines, doit être considérée comme …
Note sur l'usage des cartes dans l'enquête monographique sur Etyolo
En janvier-mars 1963, une mission de deux mois consacrée à des levées topographiques a permis la réalisation de plusieurs cartes : — une carte au 1 /1.000 des champs cultivés (complétée par un plan au 1 /100 des habitations) de deux familles choisies comme exemple. — une carte au 1 /10.000 de l'ensemble du terrain dont le fond est constitué par quelques notations sur le relief, le réseau hydrographique et le tracé des pistes. L'habitat est représ…
Aspects techniques et sociaux de l'agriculture en pays bassari
La présente étude est le résultat d'une enquête dans un village bassari du Sénégal Oriental proche de la frontière guinéenne. Les Bassari constituent une petite population, non islamisée, dont l'activité principale est l'agriculture. 1° Les techniques agricoles. L'agriculture bassari, compte tenu des conditions climatiques et géographiques qui lui sont offertes, et relativement à l'agriculture des populations voisines, doit être considérée comme …
Création et développement des marchés chez les Beembé, 1870-1911
Dans la région de la Bouenza, le district de Mouyondzi occupe les collines au nord du Niari. Sa population actuelle forte de 50 000 habitants relève des deux ensembles ethniques téké et kongo. Au nord se trouvent les Laali, appelés aussi Téké-Laali, au nombre de 4 000, et les Téké proprement dits, se dénommant eux-mêmes Tié, qui approchent les 8 000. Le centre et le sud du district sont occupés par l'ensemble beembé qui, avec 32 000 habitants, se…
Un ordre et sa destruction
Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny
Generative grammarians typically advocate for a rationalist understanding of language acquisition, according to which the structure of a developed language faculty reflects innate guidance rather than environmental influence. This proposal is developed in developmental linguistics by triggering models of language acquisition. Opposing this tradition, various theorists have advocated for empiricist views of language acquisition, according to which…
What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought
Traditional arguments against the identification of the language of thought with natural language assume a picture of natural language which is largely inconsistent with that suggested by contemporary linguistic theory. This has led certain philosophers and linguists to suggest that this identification is not as implausible as it once seemed. In this paper, I discuss the prospects for such an identification in light of these developments in lingu…
Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea (Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Linguistics and the explanatory economy
Realism and Observation
Standard proposals of scientific anti-realism assume that the methodology of a scientific research program can be endorsed without accepting its metaphysical commitments. I argue that the distinction between competence, the rules governing one’s language faculty, and performance, or linguistic behavior, precludes this. Linguistic theories aim to describe competence, not performance, and so must be able to distinguish observations reflective of th…
Reference and morphology
The dominant tradition in analytic philosophy of language views reference as paradigmatically enabled by the acquisition of words from other speakers. Via chains of transmission, these words connect the referrer to the referent. Such a picture assumes the notion of a word as a stable mapping between sound and meaning. Utterances are constructed out of such stable mappings. While this picture of language is both intuitive and historically distingu…
Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind
Language has long been a problem‐case for subsymbolic theories of mind. The reason for this is obvious: Language seems essentially symbolic. However, recent work has developed a potential solution to this problem, arguing that linguistic symbols are public objects which augment a fundamentally subsymbolic mind, rather than components of cognitive symbol‐processing. I shall argue that this strategy cannot work, on the grounds that human language a…
Idealisation in semantics
In this paper, I shall provide a novel response to the argument from context-sensitivity against truth-conditional semantics. It is often argued that the contextual influences on truth-conditions outstrip the resources of standard truth-conditional accounts, and so truth-conditional semantics rests on a mistake. The argument assumes that truth-conditional semantics is legitimate if and only if natural language sentences have truth-conditions. I s…
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar
Standard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data assumed to be generated by these very rules. In this paper I give theoretical and empirical arguments that such a model is radically unlike what a human language learner must do to acquire their native language. Most centrally, I argue that such models presuppose that lingu…
Language, Science, and Structure
Journal Article Book Review Get access Language, Science, and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics. By Ryan M. Nefdt. (Oxford: OUP, 2023. Pp. xiii + 237. Price £54.00.) Gabe Dupre Gabe Dupre University of California, Davis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9312-4691 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, pqae004, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae004 Published: 17 January 20…
Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language and cultural evolution (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works)